Dakota Porter
By: Chris BeedyStyle: Robust Porter
OG: 1.069
FG: 1.017
Recipe Type: Mini-Mash
This started as a normal brown porter and kept getting bigger as I played with the recipe. I was looking for a nice porter that was really smooth, had a little sweetness and good mouthfeel. What I ended up with looks to be on the line between a robust porter and a baltic porter. It certainly isnt what I started at but should still be tasty.
Ingredients
- 7.5 lb amber LME
- 2.0 lb caramel 80L
- 0.5 lb belgian caramunich
- 0.5 lb american chocolate malt
- 0.25 lb black roasted barley
- 12 oz pure molasses
- .75 oz columbus 17.4%(whole)
- 1.0 oz yakima golding 4.6%(whole)
- California Ale V Yeast (WLP051)
- 1 oz pure vanilla extract
Procedure
- steep grains for 40 min @ 150F
- add first wort to 1 gal boiling water
- mash out with 3 gal water @ 180F (one gallon for 10-12 minutes each)
- bring volume to 6 gal, add extract and bring to a boil
- 60 min - add columbus
- 30 min - add molasses
- 05 min - add goldings
Ferment
- pitched yeast starter at 68F
- rack to secondary after 7 days with 1-1.5 oz vanilla
- bottle or keg after 10 more days
Notes
- After 48 hours activity had slowed to a bubble a second. 1.031
